Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intrusive owner, George Steinbrenner. But last week Steinbrenner was officially forgiven and rehabilitated by an old sportscaster -- Ronald Reagan. In one of his last official acts as President, Reagan pardoned Steinbrenner for illegally funneling $100,000 to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential re-election campaign, for which the boss had been fined $15,000 and banned from the Yankees' management for 15 months. Said Steinbrenner, who is better known for berating players and managers than offering thanks: "I am very grateful...
...Undergraduate Council votes to officially change its name to the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal People's Labor Front. Party Boss Ken "Fellow Traveller" Lee '89, hired back by the council as a secretary and ideological advisor, leads the Services Committee in setting up shanties to serve as a student center in the Yard and convinces Harvard Dining Services to install four-flavored milk dispensers in the new center...
...Boss's Video Anthology/1978-88 is due in stores Jan. 31. Springsteen's video is, in contrast to Jackson's, refreshingly modest and small-scale, as if he shook out the video scrapbook and passed along some souvenirs. Although approximately a third of the 100-min. tape is taken up with material from the 1987 Tunnel of Love album and tour, most of the gems date back a bit further. An early video of Rosalita, made a decade ago, has a real scruffy, low-tech charm. Springsteen quickly learned not only how to play to the camera but how to work...
...city's northwest seldom stray into the areas where most black citizens dwell. Many blacks believe that whites are following a devious "plan" to regain political control of the District by embarrassing black officials. The mayor has survived by playing on that fear and, like any good political boss, distributing favors to his constituents...
...little odd, like sending to London for fur hats to bring a touch of Buckingham Palace to the doormen at Trump Tower. But she worked hard, and the Donald, as she sometimes calls him, kept giving her new responsibilities. When she ran his Atlantic City casinos, she was the boss of 4,000 people. "I run my operations like a family business," she says. "I sign every check, every receipt. I'm not tough, but I'm strong. You can't be a pussycat." This was, in a way, a necessity. "If Donald was married to a lady who didn...